WRNO Worldwide

[W1DAN]

Hi Everyone!

I am the person "close to" WRNO....well, I'm not really close as I am now living in Boston. Last year I did a story in Monitoring Times magazine about the new WRNO WW coming back. I am surprised it took so long, but guess their money flows slowly. That is how I got to know Janet Mawire and their transmitter engineer Larry (who is an interesting person to talk with).

Since hearing them a week ago I have not had a chance to listen again. Their antenna is beamed to the northeast and puts a very good signal into NC to NYC area among other places. It was a pretty good signal when I listened.

I remember visiting the new WRNO SW studios off the I-10 and their getting ready to go on the air in the early 80's as I had a friend engineer working for Joe who would tell me scuttlebutt. I was scared they'd overload my SW receiver when they went on the air (which they did not).

The new folk's transmitter is a new Elcor plate modulated rig in the old transmitter building on the same spot on the West Bank. Same antenna (and a nice one).

I enjoyed Joe's experiment (listening to screaming guitars though a selective fade is painful!) and actually wish it was successful, but I guess it was hard for advertizers to determine if their ads were effective. It was weird hearing promos for Zebra concerts while listening in Boston! The new WRNO will be mostly religous programming.

On a side note, I grew up in NOLA and used to work at WTUL (if ya call that work!), WBYU-FM, WLTS, as well as WGNO-TV and WLAE TV stations. Still visit and occasionally and tune the dials. The city's radio market has gone down alot since I lived there. Sad.

Dan Brown
www.danbrown.tv

[richllewis]

WRNO Worldwide is now on the air on 7505 and 15590. It seems they have a little bit of work to do, but this work can be done on downtime. The new station ID is on this Real Audio clip at http://www.w4uvh.net/wrnoid1.rm

[Lht]

Hello Everyone!

As pointed out in other post, WRNO Worldwide is officially back on the air.  I thought I would post this to clear up some of the questions I have read in earlier post.  The new licensed frequencies are for WRNO are: 7.355, 7.505 and 15.590.  For the time being, 7.505 is the only frequency being used.  Air time is 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM Central time.  We have received very good reports from listeners on the East Coast, Canada, and some European Countries. As to RFI interference complaints from the neighborhood, so far there have been none. RF is at the full 50 Kw licensed output and modulation is clean.  The transmitter runs cool with current readings at the low end of their maximum ratings.  The daytime frequency of 15.590 has not been on the air long enough (only testing at this point), to determine how it will get along with the neighborhood but testing results were good. As time goes on, Air Time will be increased as will the daytime frequency of 15.590.

Larry Thom
Chief Engineer WRNO

[gabigley1]

Larry,

Are Short Wave station like WRNO required to man their transmitters sites these days?
At least in the 80s, the FCC didn't allowed short wave radio stations to go remote control.

[gabigley1]

Did WRNO Worldwide survive the Hurricane?

[rf_chaser]

I saw on the FCC website that a few weeks ago WRNO WW was requesting a move to Fort Worth. Guess they were a little late on that one! 

[richllewis]

For all of you who were wondering what happened to WRNO Worldwide it has been reported off since Gustav came through and has not been recieved since September 1. The last check by anyone was on Sept. 6, 2008.

http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8098.txt 

[richllewis]

It was reported that WRNO worldwide was off because it had a problem with the Juice like nearly everyone recovering from Gustav. It is back on the air except for a few days when it thought the Fort Worth HQ would be hit by Ike. But it is back on the air.

[waynewatkins]

What does the programming consist of?

[richllewis]

Quick 5 minutes of News and a whole bunch of Gospel Music